Book News: Aural Orwell, Ripe Prose

If you’re looking for one of Lance Armstrong’s books at your local library, you may find it in the fiction section.

“This firm Sardinian sheep has the cool unaffected strut of Mick in his prime, Lou in middle age or Polly Jean today.” Why New York City’s cheesemongers deserve recognition for their prose as much as for their Pont-l’Évêque.

“Get Out of My Crotch,” a collection of essays on reproductive rights, health care, violence against women, and rape in twenty-first century America, was released yesterday on the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The Times Literary Supplement’s Mary Beard blogs about the disgusting online abuse she suffered after appearing on the BBC debate program “Question Time.”

A BBC Radio 4 series devoted to the works of George Orwell begins this weekend and will include dramatizations of “Animal Farm,” “Homage to Catalonia,” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

“In this new métier, each part of his persona is on view: satirist, nihilist, glamour guy, exhibitionist, knee-jerk contrarian, self-pitying cokehead, and a few other things.” In New York magazine, Vanessa Grigoriadis makes the case that Bret Easton Ellis’s true art form is the tweet.